Culex is an optional hidden boss who appears in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Culex is a being from a different dimension who desires to do battle with warriors from Mario's world. He appears to be a type of demon, having dark purple skin, red twisted horns and wings, a red mark along his torso, a jagged tail, and several crystals surrounding his waist. He also emanates what appears to be dark energy.
Alongside the Crystals, Culex is an even more powerful boss than the main story's antagonist, Smithy, as he has 4,096 HP, the second most of any encounter in the game (behind only Smithy's second phase). Culex, combined with the Crystals, has 12,396 HP, which exceeds both of Smithy's phases combined.
Standard Tactics: Culex and his crystals will attack in tandem attempting many different status effect attacks along with powerful regular attacks.
Weaknesses: Nothing notable.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
* Shedder: Removes and negates any boost in statistics his opponent gains.
Flame Stone: Flame Stone is a fire-based attack from the game, it targets a single party member and does minor damage. Animation is noted as a fiery stone falling like a meteor from the top of the screen, onto the opponent.
Dark Star: A massive dark star smashes all of Culex's opponents. It's the strongest spell in the game.
Meteor Blast: Culex summons multiple shining star-shaped meteors towards his foes.
* Elemental Crystals: Culex creates 4 elemental crystals. These crystals are all used to manipulate elements on extremely dangerous levels. (The elements that are being manipulated are created out of thin air by the crystals.)
* Earth Crystal: The earth crystal is used to manipulate the earth but it is also able to cause explosions and summon large blasts of lightning.
Blast: Blast is a common attack that deals average damage. The animation for Blast is a series of orange and yellow explosions that appear over the target.
Storm: The Earth Crystal summons a large devastating blast of lightning out of the sky.
Sandstorm: Sand Storm is a special move that inflicts moderate damage on all party members and causes the status effect Fear. The animation for Sand Storm is a wave of small, white sand grains flying across the screen.
Water Blast: Water Blast, is an attack that deals medium or high damage to all party members. When used, Water Blast causes spouts of water to appear everywhere on screen with steam rising upwards, followed by a giant explosion.
Boulder: The Earth Crystal will summon a large amount of rocks and mud that will rain down on Culex's enemies at high speeds.
* Fire Crystal: This crystal will manipulate fire and summon large walls of fire and it will even manipulate light using a powerful blinding beam
Drain: The Fire Crystal throws a fireball at an enemy that will drain life force out of them if it hits.
Mega Drain: A larger and more powerful version of Drain. It will summon a large beam of light to his target.
Flame Wall: The Fire Crystal summons a large wall of fire that can cover a large distance to incinerate multiple enemies at once.
Corona: Corona is an attack that will summon a large, yellow orb that will attack all opponents, doing significant damage.
*Water Crystal: This crystal manipulates snow and ice based based attacks instead of water based attacks.
Ice Rock: The Water Crystal will summon a large boulder of ice above the opponent's head and slam it down on them.
Blizzard: The Water Crystal's only wind based attack. The crystal will call out a large snowstorm out of nowhere, the temperature of the storm is low enough to freeze things caught in it instantly.
Solidify: The Crystal will choose multiple targets and encase them in ice.
Crystal: Crystal is an attack that will summon three large blue ice crystals to fall on the opponent.
Diamond Saw: Diamond Saw is an attack that will create a Blizzard and summon two razor-edged snowflakes to fly at an opponent, damaging them.
*Wind Crystal: The weakest of the crystals, but it has the best defense, The Wind Crystal has the best durability out of all the crystals and has multiple lightning based attacks.
Electroshock: This attack will rain down sparks on an enemy, encasing them in a ball of electricity. Then a large bolt of lightning will come down and the victim will be electrocuted. (The ball increases the damage of the lightning bolt)
Petal Blast: The Wind Crystal's only wind based attack; The Wind Crystal summons a large amount of flower petals that will fly over the battlefield. This attack will end by turning people into mushrooms.
Light Beam: The crystal flashes of light towards the enemies and it puts the victims to sleep.
Static E!: Static E! causes a blue, shimmering wave to cover the screen and, along with an interesting sound effect, deals minor electrical damage to all targets.
Bolt: Bolt consists of a single bolt of blue lightning that strikes a single opponent.
Lightning Orb: Lightning Orb attacks one opponent, when the attack is used, a small whitish-blue orb floats toward its target and engulfs it in an electric dome before disappearing, after which point the target takes damage.
